Day in the Life of the Hudson River 10/20/15 Data
RIVER MILE 11.5 – Fort Washington Park
Katie White, Marymount School of New York
51 students 7th grade, 7 adults
Latitude 40°50’46.42444” N - Longitude -73.°56’46.914”W
Location: Fort Washington Park just South of the George Washington Bridge
Area: Site is a sandy beach with rip rap adjacent to a paved jogging trail within a grassy
park. Some trees on far side of jogging trail but none next to water. Very little aquatic
vegetation.
Surrounding Land Use: : 14% forested, 85% grass park land, 1% beach,
Sampling Site: Park with a lot of trees, picnic tables, covered with vegetation, lots of
riprap shore, collected wood debris. Large outflow pipe directly south of site
Plants in water: None
Water depth: mainly 0.5 meters or less but seined in 1.5 meter water
River Bottom –muddy but rocky closer to shore in some spots
ITEM
Physical
Air Temperature
Time
Reading 1
9:58 AM
10:21 AM
10:50 AM
12:18 PM
12:48 PM
13°C
14
15
20
17
Reading 2
Comments
Wind Speed –
Frequent gusts
15-20
throughout day
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather last 3
days
Water
Water
Temperature
10:02 AM
Beaufort 2
5 pmh
10:26 AM
Beaufort 2
5
10:55 AM
Beaufort 1
3
12:24 PM
Beaufort3
6
12:52 PM
Beaufort 3
8
10:06
Partly cloudy
25-50 %
10:26
Mostly
51-75
10:55
Mostly
51-75
12:24
Clear
<25
12:52
Clear
<25
No rain
Cold (highs mid to low 50s) , Clear, No precip
Before noon calm, after noon choppy
9:49 AM
11°C
10:23 AM
12°C
10:48 AM
14°C
12:18 PM
18°C
12:51 PM
15°C
Turbidity - Long 10:00 AM
49 cm
site tube
10:15 AM
51 cm
11:00 AM
52 cm
12:15 PM
46 cm
12:45 PM
55 cm
Chemical
DO
10:10 AM
11°C
10 ppm
Hach Drop
10:35 AM
12
10
count
11:03 AM
14
10
12:38 PM
18
10
1:13 PM
15
10
pH
9:58 AM
7.0
color match test 10:29 AM
7.2
kit
10:56 PM
7.3
12:27 PM
7.2
12:59 PM
7.2
Salinity
refractometer
hydrometer
10:00 AM
17 ppt
17 ppt
10:15 AM
17
17
11:00 AM
18
17
12:15 PM
19
15
12:45 PM
19
16
Fish Catch – 9
Time
Fish Species
# caught
ft.
20 seines
9:50 AM
Atlantic
1
Seine #1
Silversides
9:58 AM
Atlantic
17
#2
Silversides
10:06 AM
Atlantic
1
#3
SSW
SSW
SSW
SSW
SSW
Averages per
rotation
90% saturation
110%
95%
15%
128%
Length cm
8.0
8.5
8.5
#4
10:20
#5
#6
10:30
10:38
#7
10:40
#8
10:45
#9
#10
#11
#12
10:55
11:00
11:05
12:15 PM
#13
12:20 PM
#14
#15
12:22
12:25
#16
#17
#18
12:47
12:48
12:49
#19
#20
TOTAL DIV - 2
12:54
1:00 PM
TOTAL
CATCH 64
Number
9:50 AM
Macroinvert
Seine #1
#2
#2
9:58 AM
#3
#3
#3
#6
#7
#8
#9
#11
#11
Macro – Div. 4
Tides
10:06
10:30
10:38
10:45
10:55
11:05
Totals 31
9:45AM
10:01 AM
10:20 AM
10:39 AM
Silversides
Atlantic
Silversides
None
Atlantic
Silversides
Atlantic
Silversides
Atlantic
Silversides
None
Striped Bass
None
Atlantic
Silversides
Atlantic
Silversides
None
Atlantic
Silversides
None
None
Atlantic
Silversides
None
None
12
11.5
0
2
9.5
7
10.5
1
8.5
0
2
0
1
10.5
10.0
10
10.0
0
2
8.0
0
0
8
8.5
0
0
Macros
Mud Snail
Ctenaphore
Blue Crab
Shore Shrimp
(Palaemonetes)
Blue Crab
Ctenaphore
Mud Snail
Ctenaphore
Ctenaphore
Ctenaphore
Ctenaphore
Blue Crab
Mud Snail
Number
1
2
1
1
Additional Info
1
1
1
4
4
5
5
1
4
YOY Male
Rising
Rising
Rising
Rising
77 cm
81 cm
88 cm
99 cm
--0.25 cm/min
0.37
0.58
YOY Male
YOY Male
10:49 AM
11:07 AM
Rising
Rising
102 cm
106cm
0.30
0.22
12:15 PM
12:31 PM
CM/60 secs
Were able
to throw the
orange into
the main
channel so
this is main
channel
current!
10:03 AM
Rising
Rising
Cm/Sec
5.4 cm/sec
12.4 cm/sec
9.5 cm/sec
15.3 cm/sec
9.5 cm/sec
19 cm
30 cm
North/South
--0.69
Ebb/Flood/Still
Flood
Flood
Flood
Flood
Flood
Barge
BMLP
S - Loaded
12:55 PM
Tug/Barge
Doubleskin
301
Unknown
UNKNOWN
N - Light
* meter stick got
submerged so
put in a new
stick at a new
location
Currents
9:58 AM
10:20 AM
11:00 AM
12:23 PM
12:55 PM
Shipping –
Commercial
Recreational
9:59 AM
12:32 AM
N – N/A
S - NA